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“Why do you want photographs of a nation so far from your own?”

For a moment Tally didn’t kno to answer His question had rendered her speechless Why would she be interested in so so far fro of places foreign to him? Finally she found her voice “Because I’m curious”

“Curious about what?”

“Everything Food, culture, language, lifestyle I’ us, as well as e have in common, too”

He snorted, a deep, rough sound of conte in common”

She couldn’t hide her own flash of disdain, her jaw tightening, te This is one of the reasons she traveled, as well as one of the reasons she’d left honorance and control “Perhaps not But instead ofo out and discover the truth for myself”

“Wo at home”

“Maybe in your opinion—”

“Yes Incare of the children, watching over the fa sure her husband is fed and rested Comfortable”

“And when does she get to be fed and rested? When is she comfortable?”

“She is comfortable when her family is healthy and at peace”

“Huh!” Tally scoffed scornfully “Why do I get the feeling that never happens?”

He swore so in Arabic she couldn’t catch but froered hi off him in waves She also felt his ambivalence He couldn’t decided what to do with her and Tally bit her lip, knowing she’d pushed hi talker but she’d certainly said quite a bit since arriving here

“I’ to be conciliatory “I’m just a curious person by nature, and I’m here in Baraka—”